£50000 - £70000 Per year
Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Maintain records of our clients using accounting software packages including Xero and Sage 50
- Use cloud accounting tools to process transactions, prepare and post journals, update all ledgers, perform bank reconciliations ready for the monthly reporting process
- Liaising with clients on any queries
- Making journal entries for all receipts, payments, and other financial transactions.
- Undertake financial close procedures for the month end, including inter-company balance reconciliation
- Preparing management accounts and month end reconciliations, including commentary
- Hold client meetings advising them of potential Accounting implications
- Preparing of service charge accounts
- Preparing extended trial balances including the final year end trial balance
- Preparing cash flow statements.
- Preparing corporation tax computation calculations and basic tax planning
- Apply and understand the client to ensure transactions are recorded appropriately, under the correct accounting standard and highlight unusual transactions to senior members of the team
- Apply a basic knowledge of rules and regulations followed by UK SME’s including tax requirements, company secretarial and a general commercial awareness
- Work as part of a team to provide ad-hoc accounting assistance and ensure clients receive an excellent service
- Support the Head of Accountancy
- Training and mentoring junior members of staff
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Fully ACCA qualified with at least two years post-qualification experience within practice
- Must be highly organized, proactive and a self-starter
- Able to priorities workload and be self-sufficient
- Ability to train and mentor junior members of staff
- Xero certified user and familiar with Iris
- A team player, with active participation in the team, in addition to being able to work on their own as required
- Previous experience holding client finalization meetings
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Intermediate MS Office, including Excel, Word
- Advisory
- Vat Returns
- Year End Accounts
Reference no: 110371